I like to rebuild with one hand when I am compelled to destroy with the other.

In pruning an old tree, we guard against destruction of the buds and fruit.

You know that as well as any one.

You are a wise and learned man; you have a thoughtful mind.

The terms by which you characterize the fanatics of our day are strong enough to reassure the most suspicious imaginations as to your intentions; but you conclude in favor of the abolition of property! You wish to abolish the most powerful motor of the human mind; you attack the paternal sentiment in its sweetest illusions; with one word you arrest the formation of capital, and we build henceforth upon the sand instead of on a rock.