I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our…”

“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. --”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain …”

“I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those w…”