Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.