Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all