The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.