Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.