Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

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

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.