"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."

"So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations."

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."

"I can never consent to being dictated to."

"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."