A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.