Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.