Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.