I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.