[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.