If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.
The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.