If you love something, set it free.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.