George Mason

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

The same causes will generally produce the same effects; and it requires no great degree of penetration to foretell that what has happened may happen again.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.