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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.