"I have no other ambition than to be a simple citizen. I want to live in peace and die in my bed."

"We have been ruled more by deceit than by force."

"I am a soldier and a politician, but I am also a philosopher. I seek the truth, and I speak what I believe to be true."

"It is harder to keep the balance of freedom than to endure the weight of tyranny."

"I blush to say it: Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, at the expense of everything else."