I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.