No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is..

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne ….

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain fr….

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true n….

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with t….

As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the i….

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye..

Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with ….

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is w….

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, ….

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if ….

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its rea….

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted ….

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal..

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long….

The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the i….

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority..

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the sett….

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength..

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them..

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst..