“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”

“ The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us. ”

“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

“God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.”

“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”