About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

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.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

We know the redemption must come.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.