The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.