To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

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

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

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

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.