Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

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.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.