I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.