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

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

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I