If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.