What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.