"For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue."
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
"Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power."