If We Restrict Liberty To Attain Security

I Wish It Were Possible, From This Instance, To Invent A Method Of Embalming Drowned Persons In Such A Manner That They May Be Recalled To Life At Any Period, However Distant; For Having A Very Ardent Desire To See And Observe The State Of America A Hundred Years Hence, I Should Prefer To Any Ordinary Death The Being Immersed In A Cask Of Madeira Wine With A Few Friends Till That Time, To Be Then Recalled To Life By The Solar Warmth Of My Dear Country!

Women And Wine, Game And Deceit, Make The Wealth Small, And The Want Great

Nothing Brings More Pain Than Too Much Pleasure; Nothing More Bondage Than Too Much Liberty.

If You Would Know The Value Of Money; Go, And Try To Borrow Some! For, He That Goes A Borrowing, Goes A Sorrowing! And Indeed, So Does He That Lends To Such People, When He Goes To Get It In Again!

I Am A Mortal Enemy To Arbitrary Government And Unlimited Power. I Am Naturally Very Jealous For The Rights And Liberties Of My Country, And The Least Encroachment Of Those Invaluable Privileges Is Apt To Make My Blood Boil.