I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

The will of the people is the best law.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

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.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.