-Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
-We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
-The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
-The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government
-The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
-Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
-You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it
-You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
-How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
