Labor is the true standard of value.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.