The proof of gold is fire.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.