If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.