Of all exercises, walking is the best.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.