Whitelaw Reid: “How often in the history of the world has barbarism been replaced by civilization without bloodshed?”

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.

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.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.