The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.