Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.