To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.