The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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.

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.

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

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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.

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

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.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.