“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

“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 county; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice”

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...”

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...”