“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?”

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”

“We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs.”

“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands”

“These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.”

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”