Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

Delay is preferable to error.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

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.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.