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

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

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

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.