“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These, our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.”

“I don't much like it when people commit unsavory acts and try to shift the blame onto me.”

“There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.”

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

“Mutual defiance made them alike.”

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothingwill preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined. ”