Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

What is dignity without honesty?

We are not born for ourselves alone.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Ability without honor is useless.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.