Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

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

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.