I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very healthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform - or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable.

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the deb…

There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government …

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectuall…

At the pre-emptory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for …

I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write. I have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I h…