In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

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

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.