The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

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.