I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity