Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.