George F. Hoar: “He prided himself on the fact that he never drew an indictment which was not sustained by the Court, if it were…”

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.

We bring you the heart's love of Boston where you were born, and Worcester where you took the early vows you have kept so well; of Massachusetts who knows she has no worthier son, and of the great and free country to whom you have taught…

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.