Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.