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

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

Individual liberty is individual power.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

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