"Patria est communis omnium parens.Our country is..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.”

“An ancient custom obtains force of nature.”

“In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.”

“Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .”

“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.”

“England is safe, if true within itself.”

“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”