What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.