The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.