Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.