The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.