Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.