I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

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

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.