No Nation Was Ever Drunk When Wine

An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In The Exercise Of Power Over His Fellow Citizens . . . There Has Never Been A Moment Of My Life In Which I Should Have Relinquished For It The Enjoyments Of My Family, My Farm, My Friends And Books.

I Have Sometimes Asked Myself Whether My Country Is The Better For My Having Lived At All? I Do Not Know That It Is. I Have Been The Instrument Of Doing The Following Things; But They Would Have Been Done By Others; Some Of Them, Perhaps, A Little Better.

The Only Security Of All Is In A Free Press.

Experience Has Already Shown That The Impeachment The Constitution Has Provided Is Not Even A Scarecrow.

There Is No Act, However Virtuous, For Which Ingenuity May Not Find Some Bad Motive.