Remember that credit is money.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.