I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.