What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?.

Give me liberty or give me death..

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace..

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liber….

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants..

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us..

I shall act as I think my duty requires..

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed..

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will f….

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study.….

Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with t….

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren ….

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights t….

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations….

He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserab….

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a co….

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it..

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the ….

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitud….

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this b….

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference betw….