It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.