If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.