Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.