None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character