I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?