Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.