"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."

"I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it."

"The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. ... [I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

"Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow."

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."