Mind is the great lever of all things.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Thank God, I also am an American!

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

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?

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