There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.