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

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

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.

Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.