It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Worry is the intrest 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.
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
