The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?