The brave are parsimonious of threats.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.