The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.