Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

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

I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.