In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.