Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.