Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

[Death] … the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return.

It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed… we must bear the present evils and fortitude…

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.

I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

George Washington famously warned against … ‘ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.