Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.