Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit's well to remember thatThings Take Time.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.