The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his mistress. He was never without an object, for when we cease to have an object, we become like an invalid in a hospital waiting for death.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.