A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?

'War,' says Machiavel, 'ought to be the only study of a prince;' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great…

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are i…

No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointe…

The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.