Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

• In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
• When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
• Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
• Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
• He who knows best knows how little he knows.