And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.