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.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.