Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.