With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.