None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.