Hope Is The Most Treacherous Of All

Liberty Is Not A Matter Of Words, But A Positive And Important Condition Of Society. Its Greatest Safeguard After Placing Its Foundations On A Popular Base, Is In The Checks And Balances Imposed On The Public Servants.

Commerce Is Entitled To A Complete And Efficient Protection In All Its Legal Rights, But The Moment It Presumes To Control A Country, Or To Substitute Its Fluctuating Expedients For The High Principles Of Natural Justice That Ought To Lie At The Root Of Every Political System, It Should Be Frowned On, And Rebuked.

The Common Faults Of American Language Are An Ambition Of Effect, A Want Of Simplicity, And A Turgid Abuse Of Terms.

It Is Seldom Men Think Of Death In The Pride Of Their Health And Strength.

Whenever The Government Of The United States Shall Break Up, It Will Probably Be In Consequence Of A False Direction Having Been Given To Public Opinion.