Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

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

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.