Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.