The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.