What I Value More Than All Things,

An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In The Exercise Of Power Over His Fellow Citizens . . . There Has Never Been A Moment Of My Life In Which I Should Have Relinquished For It The Enjoyments Of My Family, My Farm, My Friends And Books.

I Consider Ethics, As Well As Religion, As Supplements To Law In The Government Of Man.

One Of My Favorite Ideas Is, Never To Keep An Unnecessary Soldier.

The Doctrines Of Jesus Are Simple, And Tend To All The Happiness Of Man.

Courts Love The People Always, As Wolves Do The Sheep.