Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.