To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

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.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.