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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins."
Blood
"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."
History
"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."
People
"When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons."
History
"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate."
Constitution
"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition."
Politics
"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
Man
"The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received."
History
"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
Government
"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
Fact
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