I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.