Whitelaw Reid: “Trade always softens away angularities of prejudice, and too often of principle also.”

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.

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

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.