I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

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. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. 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!

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.