Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
The early morning has gold in its mouth.
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.