"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted 
    all the other alternatives."

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

    "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect 
    everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
    will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up
    that force, you are inevitably ruined." 

    "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only 
    because rough men stand ready to do violence on their 
    behalf."

    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we 
    falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we 
    destroyed ourselves.” 

    "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The 
    decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling,
    which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The
    person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, 
    nothing which is more important than his own personal 
    safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of 
    being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of 
    better men than himself."

    "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time 
    with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural 
    manure."