In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

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

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?