I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.