The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

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.

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

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.