Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.

Our opinion here is that that place has been so deeply concerned in smuggling, that if it wants it is because it has illegally sent away what it ought to have retained for its own consumption.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...