Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.