If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.