Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.