I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.