A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Learn to think continentally.

We must make the best of those ills that cannot be avoided.

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for everything. Strut is good for nothing.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

The honour of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

A promise must never be broken.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its happiness.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one is sapped, the other will fall of course.

A well-adjusted person makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they are properly armed.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.