It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Argument is not always truth.

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

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

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.