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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.