It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Of all exercises, walking is the best.
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.