All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

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

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

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.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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.