I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Work liberates.

No taxation without representation.