If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

The Bible makes the best people in the world.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.