Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

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

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones