Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.