All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].