"The most important of man's rights is to be allowed to live in a society where he is free to choose his own religion, and to follow his own conscience."

"I have no doubt that the American people will in the end overcome all the difficulties that they have to encounter."

"I have always believed that the love of truth is the most powerful of all passions."

"The American Indians are, in a certain sense, a foreign people, and they have no place in the midst of the European population."

"The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully developed, will lead to a species of legal despotism."