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• Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal governme
  which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• when all government... in little as in great thing
  hall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated....
• When all government ...in little as in great things.
  .. shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all powe...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French force
  my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H....
• No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.
  The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government....
• To-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Self-Reliance...