A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.