We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all...
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his p...
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized...
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it...