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

"To say that any People are not fit for Freedom, is to make the same excuse which every Tyrant has used for his Tyranny."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"It is not the country that makes the man, but the man that makes the country."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love an…"