Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong..

Statistics are no substitute for judgment..

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked….

I'd rather be right than President..

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….