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

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

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.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.