“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

“I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.”

“There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.”