The foundation of justice is good faith.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.