Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.