A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.