It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.