- These are the times that try men's souls.
- The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
- Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.