We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man