"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."