A Public Debt Is A Public Curse.

A Well Regulated Militia, Composed Of The Body Of The People, Trained In Arms, Is The Best Most Natural Defense Of A Free Country.

No Free Country Has Ever Been Without Parties, Which Are A Natural Offspring Of Freedom.

A Public Debt Is A Public Curse.

Religious Bondage Shackles And Debilitates The Mind And Unfits It For Every Noble Enterprise.... During Almost Fifteen Centuries Has The Legal Establishment Of Christianity Been On Trial. What Have Been Its Fruits? More Or Less, In All Places, Pride And Indolence In The Clergy; Ignorance And Servility In Laity; In Both, Superstition, Bigotry, And Persecution.

The Truth Was That All Men Having Power Ought To Be Distrusted To A Certain Degree.