We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.