The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.