National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.