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

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.