Never use one word when two will do.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

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