In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

The only victory over love is flight.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.