Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.