The Great Object Is That Every Man

Shall We Acquire The Means Of Effectual Resistance By Lying Supinely On Our Backs And Hugging The Delusive Phantom Of Hope, Until Our Enemies Shall Have Bound Us Hand And Foot?

Have We The Means Of Resisting Disciplined Armies, When Our Only Defense, The Militia, Is Put In The Hands Of Congress? Of What Service Would Militia Be To You When, Most Probably, You Will Not Have A Single Musket In The State? For, As Arms Are To Be Provided By Congress, They May Or May Not Provide Them.

It Is The Business Of A Virtuous Clergyman To Censure Vice In Every Appearance Of It.

My Political Curiosity, Exclusive Of My Anxious Solicitude For The Public Welfare, Leads Me To Ask Who Authorized Them (the Framers Of The Constitution) To Speak The Language Of 'we, The People,' Instead Of 'we, The States'?

The Militia Is Our Ultimate Safety. We Can Have No Security Without It. The Great Object Is That Every Man Be Armed.