It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

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

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.