In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

The sun - my almighty physician.