Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

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.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.