Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument..

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible..

A book is the only immortality..

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union..

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and n….

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every de….

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself..

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution..

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading..

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction..

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence..

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical….

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things ver….

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good..

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor ….

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freigh….

Knowledge is power as well as fame..

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected….