When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.