An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for preserving to them, in all their purity, the blessings of self-government, which we had assisted too in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.