Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.