Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

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.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.