The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. (using good judgement)

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.