History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.