Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

These are the days that try man's heart.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.