We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.