I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.