not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

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

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.