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.

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

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

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

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Individual liberty is individual power.