Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?