Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

One man with courage is a majority.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.