Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.