What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.