Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.