The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Question boldly even the existence of God.