We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Pre….

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people..

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must..

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one peris….

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his li….

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character..

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer..

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart..

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, per….

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean..

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observan….

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of….

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common natu….

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …..

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!.

Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend toget….

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they ….

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything ….

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to ….

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty..

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if….