To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.