As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.