James L. Petigru

“The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.”

“To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.”

“It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count th...”

“No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its pro...”

“The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.”

“If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.”