It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.