I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

War ought to be no man's wish.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.