No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
The farmers are the founders of civilization.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?
I still live. Pretty.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.