Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wis...

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the i...

Fear is the foundation of mo...

Liberty cannot be preserved without general kno...

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man l...

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your fr...

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will ex...

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when...

The happiness of society is the e...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly in...

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little b...

A government of laws, an...