Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.