At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.