We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.