I think the first duty of society is justice.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.