“A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor”

“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ”

“there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it”

“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755”