[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.