No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.