I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.

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

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.