Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

There is always room at the top.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.