"I do not know whether it is a greater proof of the wisdom or the folly of man, that he is so apt to be caught by the same bait, and to fall into the same snare, from generation to generation."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."

"A people who are free, and who mean to remain so, must be armed."

"I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."