The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.