By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.