These are the days that try man's heart.

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

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

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