If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

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

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

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

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.