Delay is preferable to error.

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.