Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

The things which hurt, instruct.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.