"The foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

"The very idea of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, is founded on the great principle of majority rule."

"Why, write to her to add another leaf to the book of sufferings."

"I wished the craftsman 'had been a Quaker preacher before he had made the cups.'"