What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Public opinion in this country is everything.