Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.