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.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

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.

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

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

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.