Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.