It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.