"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none."

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."

"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."