Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.