You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.