The will of the people is the best law.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.