Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.