Towns Were The Nursery Of Freedom.

There Is No Error So Monstrous That It Fails To Find Defenders Among The Ablest Men.

We Are Not Sure We Are Right Until We Have Made The Best Case Possible For Those Who Are Wrong.

The Light That Has Guided Us Is Still Unquenched, And The Causes That Have Carried Us So Far In The Van Of Free Nations Have Not Spent Their Power; Because The Story Of The Future Is Written In The Past, And That Which Hath Been Is The Same Thing That Shall Be.

In England Parliament Is Above The Law. In America The Law Is Above Congress.

The Barbarians, Who Possessed No Books, No Secular Knowledge, No Education, Except In The Schools Of The Clergy, And Who Had Scarcely Acquired The Rudiments Of Religious Instruction, Turned With Childlike Attachment To Men Whose Minds Were Stored With The Knowledge Of Scripture, Of Cicero, Of St. Augustine; And In The Scanty World Of Their Ideas, The Church Was Felt To Be Something Infinitely Vaster, Stronger, Holier Than Their Newly Founded States.