There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the purest source and original fountain of all power.

My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.