Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.