A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity