A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?