The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.