Where liberty is, there is my country.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
When in doubt, don't.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Remember that credit is money.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.