It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.