Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.