This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.