It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.