To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

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.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.