The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

Let no man thirst for good beer.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.