It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry