Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

The great object is that every man be armed.

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.