The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.