The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.