Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.