We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Therefore to the same natural effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

I do not feign hypotheses.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Hypotheses non-fingo. Iframe no hypotheses.

I feign no hypotheses.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapour shining without heat.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?