Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness

One insult pocketed soon produces another

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty