No People Can Be Both Ignorant And

I Learn With Great Concern That [one] Portion Of Our Frontier So Interesting, So Important, And So Exposed, Should Be So Entirely Unprovided With Common Fire-arms. I Did Not Suppose Any Part Of The United States So Destitute Of What Is Considered As Among The First Necessaries Of A Farm-house.

When Tempted To Do Any Thing In Secret, Ask Yourself If You Would Do It In Public.

Timid Men Prefer The Calm Of Despotism To The Tempestuous Sea Of Liberty.

A Government Held Together By The Bands Of Reason Only, Requires Much Compromise Of Opinion.

An Industrious Farmer Occupies A More Dignified Place In The Scale Of Beings...than A Lazy Lounger...too Proud To Work, And Drawing Out A Miserable Existence By Eating On That Surplus Of Other Men's Labor.