Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.