Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.