There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.