"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master...Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth"

"Let them eat cake."

"Don't tread on me."

"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up...I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"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 by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"If I understood the art of war as well I do music, I would conquer him!"