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.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.