The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?