Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.