“No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

He will have true glory who despises it.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.