Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them