All authority belongs to the people.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Everything yields to diligence.

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.