The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.