My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.