Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.