It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.
Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee’s gonna do to us and start thinking about what we’re going to do to him.
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.
The theory of government changes with general progress.