A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. |
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. |
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. |
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. |
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. |
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. |
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. |
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. |
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. |
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. |
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it. |
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. |
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. |
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. |
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. |
Wisdom begins at the end. |
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. |
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. |
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation. |
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. |