The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.