These are the times that try men's souls.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

Time makes more converts than reason.

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.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.