Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Thank God, I also am an American!

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.