In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.