Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.