No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.