Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

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.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?