The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.

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.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.