99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.