I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.