War and Peace
War can make us great; but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.
System of Our Government
(Speech on State Rights and Union, 1834.)
I know of no system, ancient or modern, to be compared with it; and can compare it to nothing but that sublime and beautiful system of which our globe constitutes a part, and to which it bears, in many particulars, so striking a resemblance.