The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.