America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.