If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.