I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.