Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.