Statesman Quotes

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
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