It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.