No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct

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.

Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man