When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

The merchant has no country .

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.