When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.
Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
Everything in life should be done with reflection.
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.