Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.