There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.