Orange Jacobs: “It is the constructive statesman who succeeds in writing his name permanently in the legislative history of his country.”

Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.

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.

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.

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