The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.