Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather should be little regarded.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.

A strong body makes the mind strong.