As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.