An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.