The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Times change, and we change with them.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.