Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

The National defence is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Power in any Form . . ., when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence, is dangerous.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

A taste for literature and a business turn, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

It is weakness rather than wickedness that renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.