Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Genius is sorrow's child.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.