I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.