I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.