All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.