"Experience teaches us that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the most simple and obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted …"

"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."

"Influence is not government."

"I am glad to hear that my old acquaintance Colonel Ward is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. I will not ascribe the intrepidity of his late enterprise to a mere flash of desires, because i…"

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."