All Legislation Is Founded Upon

If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision, You Had Better Abandon The Ocean.

We Have Had Good And Bad Presidents, And It Is A Consoling Reflection That The American Nation Possesses Such Elements Of Prosperity That The Bad Presidents Cannot Destroy It, And Have Been Able To Do No More Than Slightly To Retard The Public's Advancement.

How Often Are We Forced To Charge Fortune With Partiality Towards The Unjust!

There Is No Power Like Oratory. Caesar Controlled Men By Exciting Their Fears, Cicero By . . . Swaying Their Passions. The Influence Of The One Perished; That Of The Other Continues To This Day.

I Have Heard Something Said About Allegiance To The South. I Know No South, No North, No East, No West, To Which I Owe Any Allegiance.