Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.