The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

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

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.