The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.