As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

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