A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.