However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Individual liberty is individual power.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.