A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And...the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
I've lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men.
If men are so wicked as we now see them with religion what would they be if without it?
In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.