If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.