The merchant has no country .

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.