Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.