Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.