Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.