From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.