The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist. And […]
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once […]
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog […]
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Love and lordship hate companions.
