Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious