Whoever tells the best story wins.
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.