"Consequently, if the republic is the weal..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.”

“No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”

“Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.”

“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”

“Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.”

“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.”

“It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.”

“Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government at all) it must be so extensive as that local egoisms may never reach its greater part; that on every particular question, a majority may be found in its councils free from particular interests, and giving, therefore, an uniform prevalence to the principles of justice.”