The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.