The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.