Give credit to whom credit due.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.