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

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

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

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.

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.

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