Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship..

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright fo….

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it..

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men d….

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts..

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….

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall h….

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the c….

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed..

Bad men cannot make good citizens..

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people..

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organiz….

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed..

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past..

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast..

....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this co….

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience..

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?.