Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
I had rather be right than be President.
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
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