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.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

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

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.