The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.