I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them