It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.