The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

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.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

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

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.