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.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

The unspoken word never does harm.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

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.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.