The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it

Be polite to all, but intimate with few

Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being