To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.