It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific.
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .