It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

Delay is preferable to error.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.