To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

...it is easy to see that when the republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.