Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

One man with courage is a majority.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.