If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.