To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent.

Long Life Is Denied Us; Therefore Let Us Do Something To Show That We Have Lived.

When I Consider The Wonderful Activity Of The Mind, So Great A Memory Of What Is Past, And Such A Capacity Of Penetrating Into The Future: When I Behold Such A Number Of Arts And Sciences, And Such A Multitude Of Discoveries Hence Arising,--i Believe And Am Firmly Persuaded That A Nature Which Contains So Many Things Within Itself Cannot Be Mortal.

If The Truth Were Self-evident, Eloquence Would Be Unnecessary.

Let War Be So Carried On That No Other Object May Seem To Be Sought But The Acquisition Of Peace. [lat., Bellum Autem Ita Suscipiatur, Ut Nihil Aliud, Nisi Pax, Quaesita Videatur.]

Nature Has Lent Us Life At Interest, Like Money, And Has Fixed No Day For Its Payment.