All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.