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

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.