Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured.

Time makes more converts than reason.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything it's value.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

A long habit of thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

These are times that try men's souls.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.