The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.