Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.