If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.