Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

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

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

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