If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.