History is not history unless it is the truth.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.