Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.