"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"On this foundation I hope the whole may be made to stand; and that from this principle, every generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own h…"