Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.