"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."

"The US Constitution does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."

"Where liberty is, there is my country."

"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."