It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.