ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.