The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The strength and power of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resistance.

Virtue is not hereditary.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

It is error only, and not the truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.