I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

One generation cannot bind another.

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.