I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country