Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists