Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.