Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.