If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.