Give me liberty or give me death.

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.