Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.