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.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

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

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.