The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. - Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body. This sense is submitted, indeed, in some degree, to the guidance of reason; but it is a small stock which is required for this: even a less one than what we call common sense. State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.