Fear Is The Passion Of Slaves.

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

I Have Now Disposed Of All My Property To My Family. There Is One Thing More I Wish I Could Give Them, And That Is The Christian Religion.

Suspicion Is A Virtue, If In The Interests Of The Good Of The People.

[our Constitution] Is An Instrument For The People To Restrain The Government.

I Believe A Time Will Come When An Opportunity Will Be Offered To Abolish This Lamentable Evil. Everything We Do Is To Improve It, If It Happens In Our Day; If Not, Let Us Transmit To Our Descendants, Together With Our Slaves, A Pity For Their Unhappy Lot And An Abhorrence Of Slavery.