If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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!

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.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.