Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy$$$ and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength$$$ and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Pride costs us more than hunger$$$ thirst$$$ and cold.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone$$$ because they reflect more.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time$$$ who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done$$$ if we are always doing.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.