Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

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.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

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

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.