Orange Jacobs: “Fixed religious opinions in the minds of others, especially of the old, I regard as sacred.”

Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.

Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.