We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is stil…

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

There are two modes of criticism. One which ... crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful,…

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can m…

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.