With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.