Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

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

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.