As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

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

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.