The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Dependence leads to subservience.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.