Orange Jacobs: “I have noticed that some pungent remark, or sarcastic repartee is often more effective than a set speech.”

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.

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.

The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.

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