There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.