Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

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

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.