The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.