The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.