Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.