The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.