There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
The power of making war often prevents it.
Never use one word when two will do.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.