It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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.

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

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.