I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.