The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects

It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.