The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
Ministers and merchants love nobody.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.