I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.