What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.