Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
The only security of all is in a free press.
When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.