"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."

"The democracy which I have been so long laboring to establish in Virginia has received its death-wound from the present session of Assembly."

"The earth belongs to the living, not the dead."

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

"I never did, nor do I believe I ever will, give a dollar for a newspaper. I have thought that the information it contains is not worth the expense."