I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.