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The Man Who Prefers His Country Before Any Other Duty Shows The Same Spirit As The Man Who Surrenders Every Right To The State. They Both Deny That Right Is Superior To Authority.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

I Exhort You Never To Debase The Moral Currency Or To Lower The Standard Of Rectitude, But To Try Others By The Final Maxim That Governs Your Own Lives, And To Suffer No Man And No Cause To Escape The Undying Penalty Which History Has The Power To Inflict On Wrong.

Liberty, Next To Religion Has Been The Motive Of Good Deeds And The Common Pretext Of Crime.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.