It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

There is no life without friendship

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.