Great necessities call out great virtues.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'