Whitelaw Reid: “If the islanders are already citizens, then they are entitled to the future of citizens.”

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.