Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.