Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.