Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
