We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.