The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Virtue is not always amiable.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.