Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

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

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.