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.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

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

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.