Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and enco….

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience..

Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and ….

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defen….

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery..

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people..

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no….

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort..

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object..

Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our e….

The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a….

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam..

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or sl….

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil..

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you d….

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that rende….

I am not a Virginian, I am an American..

I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curi….

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God..