If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

As government grows, freedom recedes.