Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

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

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut