I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.