Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Suicide is not a remedy

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.