Men should not petition for rights, but take them

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

These are the days that try man's heart.