Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.