I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .