Tranquility is the old man's milk.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.