I therefore nominate M, de Poiery to be a captain by brevet.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly consid...
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the...
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in ev...
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.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly consider...
My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to th...
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wr...
A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle.
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Const...
The wisdom of a few has often outweighed the clamor of many.
Those who are to be the judges of the law ought to be independent, and under the influence of none but heaven.
It is essential to the security of liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people.
