Political Quotes

Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.

Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?

Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.

And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…