We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.