I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

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

Individual liberty is individual power.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.