Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

• The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
• One man with courage makes a majority.
• The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
• Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
• Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
• The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
• The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
• We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.