I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Give me liberty or give me death.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The great object is that every man be armed.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.