Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

Our people shall be free

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.