If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

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

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.