the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.