Whenever any form of government becomes destructive... it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...

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

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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only.

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

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I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.

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