In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?