I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.