Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.