Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.