In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.