A country cannot subsist well as without liberty, nor liberty without virtue

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life

Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies, and maintain us in everlasting concord... All ran towards their chains believing that they were securing their liberty, for although they had reason enough to discern the advantages of a civil order, they did not have the experience enough to foresee the dangers

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little