"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of…"

"Take away from a man his good name, and you take away his identity."

"I am a very bad economist."

"Men are governed by their passions, and you must govern their passions."

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature."