"Everything yields to diligence."

"Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt."

"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."

"A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."