When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.