Force cannot give right.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.