Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.