The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.