There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.