The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.