It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

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