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

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.