No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.