I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on…

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their contro…

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not …

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.