Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.