I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.