"The greatest good we can do our country is to conquer the spirit of party."

"I can not tell a lie. I did cut down the cherry tree."

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world."

"The foundations of our empire were not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition; but at an epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any fo…"