No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.