The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.