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" A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. "

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" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

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

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? "

" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "

" America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. "

" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

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

" The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. "

" The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. "

" A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. "

" The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "