How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.