The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.