I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

A government of laws, and not of men.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.