I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

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

Health is the requisite after morality

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.