“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!

Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Whenever you focus on the blessings in your life, you’re instantaneously on the blessing frequency, and blessings increase in your life IN THAT MOMENT! ‘I am truly blessed every day by every person, circumstance, and event, and I’m truly blessed to be sharing my life with all of you.’ How are you blessed?

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.