To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Don't spend your money till you have it.

Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.