Whitelaw Reid: “Let us have a truce to profitless disputes about what cannot be reversed.”

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

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.