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.

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

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

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

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.