After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.