It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

The wise man never loses his temper.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.