The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

The dead should not rule the living

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.