“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”

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

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”

“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”

“I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”