For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.