| Quote | Founding Father | A little extra help |
| Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise | |
| To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. | |
| A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. | |
| I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. | |
| We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. | |
| But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had | |
| 'The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.' | |
| I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! | |
| I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention—being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.” | |
| But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth | |
| | Quote | Founding Father | A little extra help |
| America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veteran | |
| The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence | |
| This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king | |
| “I knew what they were after; that I had alarmed the country all the way up, that their boats were caught aground, and I should have 500 men there soon. | |
| “All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.” | |
| I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states... | |
| Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. | |
| 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.'' | |
| 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; | |
| There, I guess King George will be able to read that | |
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