They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.