People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.