Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.