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.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God