We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly – in any other sense than a man’s house is a monopoly.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.
Instruct the mothers of the French people.
Thank God, I also am an American!
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.