Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

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

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.

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

We have not yet begun to fight.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!