I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.