I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.