Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

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.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.