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 man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.