No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.