My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.