Let there be worse cotton and better men.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.