Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Achievement has no color

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.