If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.
The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.