I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.