I shall act as I think my duty requires.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

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

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'?

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

Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.