‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.