I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.