Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.