Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

The merchant has no country .

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.