While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.