I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The sun - my almighty physician.