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

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

The sun - my almighty physician.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.