Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

All I have learned, I learned from books.

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.