On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

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

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

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.