Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

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

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

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