"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.