To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

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

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.