The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

A mind always employed is always happy.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.