For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.