My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.