Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.