Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.