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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.