A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.