Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.