All authority belongs to the people.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.