Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.