It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.