"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its wounds and restore it to a sound and healthy state."

"I never did, nor do I believe I ever will, give a dollar for a newspaper. I have thought that the information it contains is not worth the expense."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an excha…"

"I had rather be in my bed than up in the Senate."