It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
Slavery is the offspring of darkness.
He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.