I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

The same facts impress us differently.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.