The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Read Summary
Never spend your money before you have earned it. Read Summary
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Read Summary
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Read Summary
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Read Summary
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Read Summary
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Read Summary
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Read Summary
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Read Summary
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Read Summary