The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.