Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

Everything yields to diligence.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.