Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.