We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.