There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom.

I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy wh…

I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or he…

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.