I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

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.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.