The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.