A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.

Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it pr…

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases …

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of …

At home, the public has come to accept torture as a legitimate instrument of government, something that the Founding Fathers would have been aghast at. We have…

If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it…