What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

The way to resumption is to resume.

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?