Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.