A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.