Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

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.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

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.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.