The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.