It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.