In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.