I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.