It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.