They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.