"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"On one side I am called upon to remember the parrot, on the other to remember the dog. For my own part I should not pine much if both were forgot."

"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."

"I hope, some day, we shall become a storehouse and granary for the world."

"It should be the highest boast of every American to be a good citizen."