I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.