Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can’t eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!
Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
Don’t be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.