The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

History is not history unless it is the truth.