No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.