Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.