“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

“A little rebellion is good now and then.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

“For people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

“The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.”

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

“In matters of principal stand like a rock.”

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.”

"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”