I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?