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

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.