Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it...
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
When its dark enough you can see the stars.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.
Perpetual war for perpetual peace.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.