Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.