The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.