The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.